CBAP Final Practice Exam 1

When planning the communication activities for business analysis, you will be planning for interactions with stakeholders. There are needs and constraints of the stakeholders to keep in mind. Which of the following is not one of these considerations?

__________ is the formal approval of a set of requirements by a sponsor or other decision maker.

What type of rules defines rules an organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy? These guide the actions of people working within the business.

A __________ is an informal solicitation of proposals from vendors.

The business case articulates the projected cost/benefit and risk assessment, but most importantly defines:

Which type of methodology approach is less impacted by the risk of late identification of stakeholders? Late stakeholder identification may result in requirement revision, project plan revision, increased costs and customer dissatisfaction.

There are many approaches that organizations can use as a basis for prioritizing requirements. Which of the following will prioritize requirements based on demands posed by forces outside the project's stakeholder desires?

Which Knowledge Area describes how business analysts manage conflicts, issues, changes, how the requirements are communicated to stakeholders, and how requirements are used by business analysts in the future?

A(n) __________ prototype is continuously modified and updated in response to feedback from users.

What does the acronym SMART represent in relation to converting business goals into descriptive objectives?

In assessing solution options, the business analyst is reviewing options for the solution that will best meet the stakeholder and solution requirements, however there is another consideration. What is that other consideration?

The output of Conduct Elicitation Activity task is:

Which of the following stakeholders will approve the business case and authorize funding?

Which Knowledge Area involves the task of securing approval of requirements?

You are embarking on a large initiative in which the plan is to follow a change-driven methodology approach. How do you approach planning of the business analysis activities?

What does the square represent in the diagram below?

Which Knowledge Area describes how business analysts assess proposed solutions to determine which solution best fits the business needs, identifies, gaps, determines workarounds or changes to solution, assess attainment of original need?

You, as a business analyst, find that some of the terminologies that you hear discussed in various interviews seem to have different meanings across the areas of the organization. As you analyze the information from these elicitation sessions, what technique would be the best to use of the following choices?

A coverage matrix is a table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing. When is this technique typically used?

When embarking on a project, the Business Analyst should expect that an established means of managing the requirements is needed for which of the following reasons:

This diagram depicts:

Interface Analysis could lead to further analysis and the utilization of additional elicitation techniques. Which of the following are appropriate for eliciting additional information when a user interface is involved?

When key stakeholders are widely dispersed, the project instantly becomes more complex. The BA should factor into his planning of business analysis activities which of the following for dispersed stakeholders?

As the business analyst performs requirements analysis, he/she typically develops models (domain model) for all of the following purposes except:

A __________ is a point-in-time view of requirements that have been reviewed and agreed upon to serve as a basis for further development.

Which of the following is a common reason for using third party vendors and conducting Vendor Assessments?

In which of the following situations would you not choose document analysis as an elicitation technique?

In reference to the Diagram below, what is representative of the circle?

If a solution is consistently producing unacceptable outputs, what technique would be most appropriate to employ?

As a business analyst working on the implementation of a customer relationship management module for global insurance company, you find that a group of stakeholders located at the corporate headquarters are expressing business needs without regard to the impact on regional employees. The regional employees have not been actively involved or identified as key stakeholders, but you know they will be negatively impacted. Which behavioral characteristic will lead you to escalate this issue to ensure fair treatment for regional employees?

Which skill demonstrates an effective understanding for people, processes, and technology and how these interact within the organization through relationship and patterns to create a whole system?

Which of the following is a disadvantage of written communication?

What is a target or metric that a person or organization seeks to meet in order to progress towards a goal?

Which of the following would provide a graphic of the stakeholder categorization?

When a business analyst is preparing to educate an implementation SME about the business context in which the solution will be implemented, the business analyst chooses to use some visual guides and models. What type of learner is the business analyst assuming the implementation SME is?

In order to successfully Manage Solution Scope and Requirements, which of the following inputs are required?

Working in the United States, your project was originally slated for in-house development utilizing Agile methodology with a collocated team to include all key stakeholders. A change in direction has been made to outsource the development to India. You must instantly re-plan the requirement deliverable content. What approach do you recommend?

Which of the following Data Modeling diagrams is preferred if object-oriented development is being used on a project?

The tasks within all the Knowledge Areas are likely to be performed by:

A business analyst may generate new business needs through which of the following?

In assessing an organization's readiness, what input does the business analyst rely on to provide the current state of the organization to include the org structure, processes, systems, information, application, security structure, etc?

Which of the following is a component of the solution scope?

Which plan will serve as input to Communicate Requirements task?

Which stakeholder would be concerned with the business analysis plan to determine the level of commitment that will be required of them?

Which of the following is not a technique utilized to complete the Verify Requirements task?

The purpose of __________ is to generate new ideas that can produce some themes for further analysis.

Which of the following is the output of Validation Solution utilized by Evaluate Solution Performance Task?

Which Prepare Requirements Package input best describes the stakeholder groups and their communication needs?

Three elements are involved in utilizing the Problem Tracking technique. What are these three?

As a business analyst, what are the considerations for constructing the business analysis communication plan?